Elizabeth Drew
Elizabeth Drew (born November 16, 1935) is an American political journalist and author.
Elizabeth Drew
American
Political journalist and author
Early life[edit]
Elizabeth Brenner was born on November 16, 1935, in Cincinnati, Ohio.[1] She is the daughter of William J. Brenner, a furniture manufacturer,[2] and Estelle Brenner (née Jacobs).[3]
Drew attended Wellesley College, where she was a Phi Beta Kappa and graduated in 1957 with a BA in political science. Her first job in journalism was with Congressional Quarterly from 1959.[4]
Personal life[edit]
Drew was married to J. Patterson Drew from 1964 until his death in 1970 and was married to David Webster from 1981[16] until his death in 2003.[17] She currently resides in Washington D.C.
Criticism[edit]
In 1986, the editors of Snooze: The Best of Our Magazine parodied her as "Elizabeth Drone," author of a "Giant Postcard From Washington."[18]
In 1989, Spy magazine labeled her as the "author of too-frequent Washington columns."[19]
In 2014, President Richard Nixon's former aide Frank Gannon disputed Drew’s “blithe assertions that Nixon was a Dilantin-addicted alcoholic,” arguing that they were “as untrue as they are ugly.”[20]